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New hard drives not recognised

  • 01-08-2006 10:51pm
    #1
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,529 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just got two new SATA hard drives off komplett, and will be looking to raid them together eventually. The problem that I have at the moment is that they aren't being recognised by the bios. If I plug in one of them, it gives me a device error, and if I have my original drive in anything but the primary position, it gives me an the same error. Any idea's? It a VIA chipset by the way, with Western Digital hard drives.


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  • #2
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,529 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    Typical, two hours of searching before I post here and five minutes later I find what is almost definatly the answer. They're SATA-II drives, and the chipset only supports SATA-I drives, so now I have to find two jumpers somewhere to disable SATA-II on the drives. Strangly enough, they did'nt include any with the drives themselves.


  • #3
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Are you putting them in2 an existing pc or a new build?
    If it is a new build you have enable them in the bios and have to install the driver for them on floppy (called f6 floppy) when your'e installing windows.

    Edit: you figured it out when i was typing.


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